Headquarters of the DPR defense: battles for Sloviansk began

Official representative added that full control over 231 settlements, including Sviatohirsk and Tatyanovka, has been established on the territory of the DPR.

⚡️ President Putin cancels requirement for exporters to sell 50% of foreign exchange earnings

The government commission will now determine the percentage.

That news comes as the dollar exchange rate dropped below 58 rubles for the first time since May 25.

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⚡️ Verdict Reached in Donetsk Foreign Mercenaries Case

British citizens Shaun Pinner and Aiden Aslin, as well as Moroccan national Saadoun Brahim will learn their fate in the Supreme Court of the DPR Thursday.

The mercenaries could possibly face the death penalty on terrorism charges.

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⚡️DPR Death Penalty Decision Will Be Appealed - Mercenaries’ Lawyer Says

If the head of the People’s Republic pardons the convicted mercenaries, the death penalty can be commuted to life or 25 years in prison. (RIA Novosti)

If the death penalty stands, the execution will be carried out by firing squad.

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"Ukrainian troops are suffering massive losses as they are outgunned 20 to one in artillery and 40 to one in ammunition by Russian forces, according to new intelligence painting a bleak picture of the conflict on the frontline.

A report by Ukrainian and Western intelligence officials also reveals that the Ukrainians are facing huge difficulties responding to Russians shelling with their artillery restricted to a range of 25 kilometres, while the enemy can strike from 12 times that distance."

The article goes on about strugles with desertion with up to a hundred soldiers being killed a day, is having “a seriously demoralising effect on Ukrainian forces as well as a very real material effect; cases of desertion are growing every week”
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"The total number of Russian soldiers being held by Ukraine has fallen to 550 from 900 in April after a series of exchanges. Moscow meanwhile has more than 5,600 Ukrainian troops in captivity..."

What's up Western media? You OK?

🇺🇦🇬🇧The UK is concerned about the death sentence for British mercenaries in the DPR.

This was stated by Foreign Minister Liz Truss during a conversation with the press.

"We consider them prisoners of war and will work on their release through Kiev," the minister said.

Those sentenced to execution — Sean Pinner and Aiden Aslin were accused of mercenary activities. Both have already appealed to Prime Minister Johnson about the exchange.

However, they were refused, because "they should not have been in Ukraine" and in general "Kiev should be engaged in their release.

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Situation in northern Kharkiv Region as at 19:00 on June 9, 2022

▪️ The AFU continues regrouping its forces for a new offensive attempt to reach the Russian border. Additional units arrived in Udy, Odnorobovka and Konstantinovka as part of the rotation. Several howitzers were moved to Shestakovo.

▪️ Additional MANPADs were delivered to the villages of Petrovka and Cherkasskiye Tishki, and Western-made SAM systems are being prepared in Slatino. In the Komsomolskoye Lake area, fighters of the "Kraken" national battalion organized training for volunteers to join their ranks.

▪️ Nevertheless, so far the AFU has not succeeded in its offensive actions: another attempt to storm the long-suffering Ternovoye and Varvarovka ended unsuccessfully. During the counterattack, the Russian Armed Forces repulsed Ukrainian units from both villages.

▪️Russian artillery and missile forces continued to strike targets and places of concentration of AFU manpower. Targets in Udy, Cherkaskiye Tishki, Svetlichne and Zolochiv were hit. During the night, the previously identified positions of the anti-tank division of the 92nd brigade in the Novobavarskiy district of Kharkiv were destroyed.

▪️Ukrainian armed formations continue shelling Russian territory: today several shells fell in the border settlement of Khotmyzhsk in the Belgorod region. There were no casualties, several houses suffered material damage.

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⚡️Briefing by Russian Defence Ministry

▫️Engineering units of the Russian Armed Forces have started clearing roads and forest areas of the Svyatye Gory National Park near Svyatogorsk, Yarovaya, Studenok and Sosnovoe of Donetsk People's Republic. Over the past 24 hours, 126 explosive devices of various types, including 54 anti-tank mines, planted by Ukrainian nationalists have been found and destroyed.

▫️The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the special military operation in Ukraine.

💥High-precision air-based missile strike near Novograd-Volynskyi, Zhytomir Region, has destroyed 1 AFU training centre where foreign mercenaries were being retrained and coordinated.

💥In addition, high-precision air-based missiles have destroyed 2 command posts, 1 Osa-AKM anti-aircraft missile system near Razdolovka in Donetsk People's Republic, 1 ammunition depot near Paraskovievka in Lugansk People's Republic, and 23 areas of AFU manpower and military equipment concentration.
Operational-tactical and army aviation have hit 18 areas of AFU manpower and military equipment concentration.

▫️The attacks have resulted in the elimination of more than 200 nationalists, 5 tanks, 2 Grad multiple rocket launchers and 1 warehouse of missile and artillery weapons near Verkhnekamenskoe, Lugansk People's Republic.

💥Russian air defence means have shot down Su-25 aircraft of Ukrainian Air Force near Mazanovka, Donetsk People's Republic.

▫️Also, 13 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles have been shot down near Slavnoe, Prechistovka, Kudryashovka, Epifanovka in Donetsk People's Republic, Varvarovka, Borovenki in Lugansk People's Republic, Tokmak in Zaporizhzhya Region, Petrovskoe, Suligovka in Kharkov Region, Snegirovka, Aleksandrovka and the Mogyla Kulich barrow in Kherson Region.

▫️In addition, 1 Ukrainian Tochka-U ballistic missile have been intercepted near Kirovo in Kherson Region, and 2 Smerch rockets have been shot down near Kamenka, Kharkov Region, and Panteleimonovka, Donetsk People's Republic.

💥Missile troops and artillery have hit 56 command posts, 127 firing positions of AFU artillery, as well as 273 areas of manpower and military equipment concentration.

▫️The attacks have resulted in the elimination of more than 300 nationalists, 7 armoured vehicles, 2 Grad multiple rocket launchers, 12 field artillery guns and mortars, 24 special vehicles, 1 fuel storage facility for military equipment near Kobzartsy in Nikolaev Region, and 1 crossing of Seversky Donets River near Protopopovka.

📊In total, 193 Ukrainian airplanes and 130 helicopters, 1,163 unmanned aerial vehicles, 336 anti-aircraft missile systems, 3,471 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 493 multiple launch rocket systems, 1,834 field artillery and mortars, as well as 3,512 units of special military vehicles were destroyed during the operation.

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🇪🇺🇺🇦News of European Unity.

Denmark and the Netherlands oppose granting EU candidate status to Ukraine, Bloomberg writes.

Diplomats are confused by the insufficient level of democracy and the rule of law in Ukraine .

There are also questions about human rights and the protection of minorities, the newspaper reports.

But Germany offers to give Ukraine a kind of "conditional candidate status."

💬 Russia's President Vladimir Putin on sovereignty in today's rapidly changing world:

We live in an era of change. Geopolitical, scientific and technological transformations are happening. The world is changing, and it is doing so rapidly.

In order to claim some kind of leadership – any country, any people, any ethnic group should ensure their sovereignty.

Because there is no in-between, no intermediate state: either a country is sovereign, or it is a colony, no matter what the colonies are called.

I am not going to give any examples so as not to offend anyone, but if a country or a group of countries is not able to make sovereign decisions, then it is already a colony to a certain extent. But a colony has no historical prospects, no chance for survival in this tough geopolitical struggle.

(excerpt from President Putin's meeting with young entrepreneurs, engineers and scientists ahead of the St.Petersburg International Economic Forum).

Reuters once again proved the "absence of Nazis" in Ukraine.

Photo caption: "A local resident inspects a damaged van after a military strike."

An interesting tattoo of a "local resident".

🇺🇦❗In Ukraine, the mobilization of women is being prepared for the purpose of "uninterrupted replenishment of the losses of personnel" of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. First of all, until June 15, the mobilization of women who are already liable for military service will start, and until June 31 Ukrainian women from 18 to 60 will be registered for military service.

The order concerns the Dnepropetrovsk, Kyiv, Kirovograd, Nikolaev, Odessa, Kharkov, parts of the Donetsk and Zaporozhye regions.